Violations of Emotional Regulation in Patients with Stress-induced Hypertension

The purpose of the study was to investigate the specifics of emotional regulation under conditions of experimental stress modeling in patients with hypertension (HTN): essential HTN, stress-induced HTN, and “HTN at work.” We examined 85 subjects with HTN at work, 85 patients with essential HTN, and 82 healthy individuals. It was shown that subjects with HTN demonstrate a specific complex of psychological and physiological features that reliably distinguish them from people in the control group. Patients with HTN at work demonstrate mainly repressive types of reactions, characterized by a lowering of the level of anxiety, increasing blood pressure, fluctuant aspirations, and also a scarcity of behavioral manifestations in combination with an abundant variety of facial expressions.